Wes Craven
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"Wesley Earl" ""Wes"" "Craven" is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor known for his work on horror films, particularly slasher films. He is the creator of the A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)/A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise featuring the Freddy Krueger character, directed the A Nightmare on Elm Street/first installment and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and also co-wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Bruce Wagner. Craven also directed the entire Scream (film series)/Scream series featuring Ghostface (Scream)/Ghostface. Some of his other films include The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)/The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left (1972 film)/The Last House on the Left, The Serpent and the Rainbow (film)/The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn, Cursed (2005 film)/Cursed, and Red Eye (2005 American film)/Red Eye along with producing partner Marianne Maddalena. Craven also directed My Soul to Take.

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The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

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A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

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After that, everybody-assumed I must be a terrifying person who lived in a cave. We both tried to make other kinds of films, but we couldn't get any money. They were offering us money to make scary movies, so I went off and made The Hills Have Eyes , and Sean went off and did Friday the 13th .

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My whole family still lives there, ... I mean, where is Cleveland anymore? They're in Cleveland Heights, Burton, Willoughby, places like that. Mostly all over the eastern suburbs.

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Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well. I don't know if it's (due to) the corporations taking over studios or what it is. But it really calls for some young filmmakers to come in and just do something from their hearts.

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I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc.

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The audience that would see that movie, by and large, doesn't go to see horror films, ... It was a great pleasure to make, and to see Meryl (Streep) nominated (for a best actress Oscar) for it. But most of the people I run into who loved it are surprised that I made it. When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.

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If you think it, the camera will see it.

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You can't ignore the 800-pound gorilla: There's no shortage of post-9/11 jitters. I don't think anybody likes sitting down next to a stranger for five hours.

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